Commonwealth v. City of Covington

How courts have described this case

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• “A police officer can also initiate a prosecution by creating material, false information and forwarding that information to a prosecutor or by withholding material information from a prosecutor.”
• “A police officer can also initiate a prosecution by . . . withholding material information from a prosecutor.”
• For the existence of probable cause to be a complete defense to a malicious prosecution claim under New York law, the defendant must have had probable cause for each offense charged.
• “As with false arrest claims, the existence of probable cause is a complete defense to a claim of malicious prosecution in New York, but unlike false arrest claims, the defendant must have possessed probable cause as to each- offense charged.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).